Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Donald Spoon
Marc Wilson wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:37:39PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: The only problem was that I had to grab the Quicktime win32 audio dlls to get sound going. I've fiddled and fiddled and gotten nowhere with doing this. All I was ever able to make mplayer do was segfault in various

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-27 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Nick Hastings wrote: Hmm? I agree that "reply to" should reply back to the origin of the email. However the list is _not_ the origin of the email! The original sender is the origin by definition. That is true. The original sender is the origin by definition, but that point of origin changes once

Re: Phoenix with java ..

2003-02-27 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:49:40PM -0800, nate wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh said: > > > ah ha. i had it extracted in /home/sandip/java. i think java needs to be > > in the 'path'. here is output of echo $PATH: > > > > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games well, i changed my path also

Re: Chinese input

2003-02-27 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 February 2003 13:22, Robert Storey wrote: > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:31:24 -0800 > > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you create locale from root? > > > > # dpkg-reconfigure locales > > Thanks Osamu, that solved the locale prob

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread nate
Paul Johnson said: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:24:45PM -0800, nate wrote: >> there used to be a program called binchunker which I used to >> use to burn bin/cue looks like that's replaced with bchunk, >> though never used it, and don't know if it's a write-only program or if >> it can read/create

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-27 Thread Nick Hastings
* Joseph A Nagy Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030228 14:21]: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >--text follows this line-- > > > >>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph A Nagy Jr > >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Actually, that Reply-to-list functionality can be implimented on > > > the l

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:24:45PM -0800, nate wrote: > there used to be a program called binchunker which I used to > use to burn bin/cue looks like that's replaced with bchunk, > though never used it, and don't know if it's a write-only program > or if it can read/create bin/cue too. I think bch

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:57:37PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm also having difficulty finding some decent VCD documentation. I > see plenty for Red Hat. I'll admit I'm way too lazy to go alien in > some of the tools it mentions, though...there's gotta be a Debian > solution... It's not hard

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-27 Thread Brian Durant
Sorry Kent, I tried posting after as a response and it sucks. I use spell checking and as most spell checkers are pretty dumb and start at the top, I end up having to correct or skip other people's misspelled words before I get to my own. The other way round, like I am doing now, I can stop the

Re: Phoenix with java ..

2003-02-27 Thread nate
Sandip P Deshmukh said: > ah ha. i had it extracted in /home/sandip/java. i think java needs to be > in the 'path'. here is output of echo $PATH: > > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games > > could that be the reason? Don't think so..I don't have java in my path .. putting it in /h

OT: RE: no war

2003-02-27 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030227 16:02 PST]: > > > Iraq. > > Please consider this an urgent request. UN Petition for Peace Stand for As much as I like where this guys heart is, he is a bit naive.

Re: Phoenix with java ..

2003-02-27 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:09:55PM -0800, nate wrote: > I guess I deleted the mail from I think "Sandip" but I decided > to try to get java working in phoenix 0.5 and it seems to work.. yes. it was me. it had been quite frustrating. finally, i decided to check if there are any debian packages avai

Re: Shadow RAM can't be disabled

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:05:18PM -0500, Mark A. F. wrote: > What misbehaviors might I experience due to these settings? While I haven't personally had experiance with such (broken) hardware that shadowing couldn't be turned off, I would expect one of three things to happen... 1) It Just Works(t

Re: apt-file question

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Epprecht
"Narins, Josh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> apt-file search vga.h >> >> Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_foreign" >> (perhaps\ >> you forgot to load "URI::_foreign"?) at /usr/bin/apt-file line 225. > Robert, [ ... ] Maybe you should file a bug report against apt-file. I

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-27 Thread Brian Durant
sean finney wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:16:43PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: The response is "not found". Remember, I am still in the install. I the response to what? ifconfig? lspci? also, were you able to install the kernel onto the hard disk? if you can finish the install proce

Re: Chinese input

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Storey
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:31:24 -0800 Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you create locale from root? > > # dpkg-reconfigure locales Thanks Osamu, that solved the locale problem. The situation is improved now, but I'm still not quite out of the woods yet. This is what I get: [EMAIL P

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread Michael Waters
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:46 +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > Greetings Mark. You piqued my interest when you mentioned "burning > VCDs." Under Linux, I have not been able to either copy or > roll-my-own VCDs. Xcdroast, for example, seems to copy VCDs fine - > but the copies won't play. Most any Wind

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread nate
Paul Johnson said: > Can you use one of those tools that convert bin/cue to get a disk > image and expect it to work right? if you mean convert from an ISO to a bin/cue I don't think so, though never tried it. If you mean convert from bin/cue to raw mpeg that should work(for playback using a mpeg

Phoenix with java ..

2003-02-27 Thread nate
I guess I deleted the mail from I think "Sandip" but I decided to try to get java working in phoenix 0.5 and it seems to work.. what I did: 1) install phoenix(I install to ~/phoenix) 2) download java: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html (I downloaded the linux self extracting file) 3) ch

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-27 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Manoj Srivastava wrote: --text follows this line-- In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph A Nagy Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, that Reply-to-list functionality can be implimented on > the list itself. Not without breaking the original functionality of Reply to I don't agree. I t

Re: Subdomain - node ?

2003-02-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:21:42PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:03:43PM -0600, Dan Hunt wrote: > > Thanks Everyone, yes I was talking about http:\\ > > and and ftp in the same sentence, sorry to mess you up. > > I'm not sure most ftp servers grok the concept of virtual

Shadow RAM can't be disabled

2003-02-27 Thread Mark A. F.
Hi. I am not able to disable shadow RAM through the BIOS on my IBM Aptiva 2161 Pentium 166 PC. Here are the forced Shadow RAM settings: F000 - (System BIOS) E800 - EFFF (Rapid Resume BIOS) E000 - E7FF (System POST) Upper Memory Boundary F200 I am working through my insta

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:19:50PM -0800, nate wrote: > You'll probably need vcdtools, or vcdimager. Or look for tools that > can create/burn .bin/.cue files, this format is what a VCD would > come in. the .bin contains the raw data, and the .cue tells the > CD software how to burn it. Can you use

Re: backing up hidden files

2003-02-27 Thread nate
Robert Storey said: > I've been trying to find a clever way to back up or copy hidden files such > as .emacs, .xinitrc, and so on, along with my other data files. The > problem is that tar and cp ignore hidden files if you use * as a wildcard. > And if you try something like this: > >[EMAIL PRO

Re: US Robotics 56K PCI winmodem + Woody

2003-02-27 Thread donw
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:13:40PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > >I've recently bought a US Robotics 56K PCI winmodem. I realized the last > >part (winmodem) just a few days ago. > > > >How do I install it in Woody? > > > >Currently I'm using Woody, unstable/testing and kernel 2.4.20. > > > >

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:37:39PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: > The only problem was that I had to grab the Quicktime win32 audio dlls to > get sound going. I've fiddled and fiddled and gotten nowhere with doing this. All I was ever able to make mplayer do was segfault in various interesting ways

installing phoenix and java

2003-02-27 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all i tried my hand as best as i could at installing phoenix and java for it by hand. no success. are there any debian packages that will let me install phoenix and java for that using apt system? i request simple easy to understand step by step instructions. thanks in advance -- regard

Re: APM

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Storey
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Daymien wrote: > > > Hi > > > > i complete my instalation of debian linux. > > i will use my old celeron pc at server for all pc in the house. > > For remote control i use ssh if apm works i tray to install a x-server and > > controll the pc over vnc but at the moment if i

Re: Where to put environment variables?

2003-02-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Joao Clemente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030227 18:16 PST]: > On Friday 28 February 2003 01:06, praveen kallakuri wrote: > > your console may not be spawning a login shell. thats when /etc/profile > > is not read (in other words, /etc/profile is read when you spawn a login >

backing up hidden files

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Storey
I've been trying to find a clever way to back up or copy hidden files such as .emacs, .xinitrc, and so on, along with my other data files. The problem is that tar and cp ignore hidden files if you use * as a wildcard. And if you try something like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp$ tar -cvf targ

Re: Chinese input

2003-02-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:42:01AM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:11:30 +0800 > Arne Goetje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xcinterm-big5 > xcin: error: C locale "zh_TW.Big5" is not supported by your system. > /usr/bin/crxvt -fm "taipei16" -fn "-sony-*-16-*-

Re: Subdomain - node ?

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:03:43PM -0600, Dan Hunt wrote: > Thanks Everyone, yes I was talking about http:\\ > and and ftp in the same sentence, sorry to mess you up. I'm not sure most ftp servers grok the concept of virtual hosts... -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debi

kernel-package happiness :)

2003-02-27 Thread Chris Cioffi
Just a short note of thanks and kudos to the kernel-package team. I am setting up a Dell 620SC (I think...) for a customer. The system includes 2 Intel E1000 ethernet ports, which aren't supported by the current stable distibution. So, I got the current source and the Intel driver source, but

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread nate
Robert Storey said: > > Greetings Mark. You piqued my interest when you mentioned "burning VCDs." > Under Linux, I have not been able to either copy or roll-my-own VCDs. > Xcdroast, for example, seems to copy VCDs fine - but the copies won't > play. Most any Windows burner program I've used can at

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
--text follows this line-- > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph A Nagy Jr > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, that Reply-to-list functionality can be implimented on > the list itself. Not without breaking the original functionality of Reply to > Why list-masters d

Re: Browser string of Mozilla?

2003-02-27 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On February 27, 2003 08:00 am, Tom wrote: > Richard Hector: > > > > >> Is there anything I can edit to make Mozilla behave like it was > >> Internet Explorer? > > > > I have a couple of thoughts on this - first, it's nothing to do > > with Debian. > > Hm. You're absolutely right; my apologies. Sub

VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Storey
On 27 Feb 2003 11:05:05 -0500 "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > with my options to ./configure, I can sit back and watch my business and > news channels over the Internet 24/7, and check the vcds I'm burning of > my parents' home movies (they converted 8 mm film that had broken > numero

Re: Chinese input

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Storey
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:11:30 +0800 Arne Goetje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > xcin. it works with rxvt and comes with a script which starts rxvt in > chinese mode. start your applications for which you want to have chinese > input from there and you are off... I use it all the time. :) > just star

Re: About to go all Deb

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Storey
Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /tmp2gig > /tmp get used only during boot and such and like boot, doesnt usually > require a seperate partition. If you are going to provide a seperate > partition, it could be alot smaller. 512Mb should be enough If you burn CDRs (an

Re: (Newbie) Compatibility while I am fumbling.

2003-02-27 Thread Brian Durant
Wow, thanks for the very clear, concise and informative answer. Let me ask while I am at it, if you think that I would still get this Debian support in a a stock 2.4 kernel in 3 rev. 1 or is there something specific with the hardware that you needed to use the 2.4.18-k7 kernel? Cheers, Brian

Re: my ongowing struggle with java

2003-02-27 Thread karrottop
I did not know that there were any apt sources for java...yahooo! Thanks, Ill give that a try and see if it works Thanks Again, Jason Self On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 15:40, Andy Wettstein wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:26:30PM -0500, karrottop wrote: > > Ok, I have been having a horrible time ge

Re: autologin in console mode

2003-02-27 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 07:17:33PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > Is it possible to do an autologin into console mode? ie, when turning on the > machine a particular user gets logged in every time without entering a > username or password? > > It's for a visually-impaired user, so having to type

using Tex / LaTeX as non-root

2003-02-27 Thread Ananda Kumar Samaddar
Hi All, can somebody help with me with said subject? Since I upgraded to Woody, my texmf tree in /var/spool has not been changeable by a normal user. So as a normal user I cannot generate new tfm or pk files. This is very annoying as I use both LyX and TeXmacs. How do I rectify this so that an

Re: [OT] Complaint - spam-spam-spam ( monty python )

2003-02-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Also, see http://incanus.net/~nnorman/sound/spam.au and the rest of the spam sounds http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Mail/spam.sounds/ mpeg samples for testing your sound/video/ra players http://www.Linux-Video.net/Samples c ya alvin -- To UNS

Re: default permissions on /root

2003-02-27 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
Jeremy Gaddis said: > Can anyone explain to me why /root has > default permissions of 700 on a clean > install? Sorry, made a boo-boo when I wrote that. I meant to ask why were the default permissions *NOT* set to 700 on a clean install? I have multiple Debian machines and just today noticed tha

Re: "failure while configuring base packages"

2003-02-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030227 20:36]: > * Udo Hoerhold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030227 19:03]: > > I wonder how much I could sell that list of e-mail addresses for ?? :-) Doh !!! :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

RE: no war

2003-02-27 Thread dbalder
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030227 16:02 PST]: > Iraq. > Please consider this an urgent request. UN Petition for Peace Stand for >Idiot. >Please consider that you have just sent (presumably everyone you know)'s >email address to a public list. Thi

Re: Where to put environment variables?

2003-02-27 Thread Joao Clemente
On Friday 28 February 2003 01:06, praveen kallakuri wrote: > your console may not be spawning a login shell. thats when /etc/profile > is not read (in other words, /etc/profile is read when you spawn a login > shell). trying using a standard terminal. or alternatively, put your > environment variab

ant

2003-02-27 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'd like to run ant, but I had the following instead. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ant -diagnostics | grep junit junit.jar (107327 bytes) junit : Not Available junitreport : Not Available java.class.path : /usr/lib/j2se/ext:/usr/share/java/repository:/usr/share/ant/lib/ant-optional.jar:/usr/share/an

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:31:49AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:51:29PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Who is BCCing you? Is this a real person on this list or a SPAMMER. I > > do get few strange BCC messages or bounce messages from SPAMMER. They > > harvest addresses fr

Re: Disaster recovery

2003-02-27 Thread nate
Rich Johnson said: > Yeah, this "works", but it's not quite what I want. I'd like the deltas > between the default installation and my installation. Although disaster use a system like CVS then .. I've been meanin to start using cvs for config files but still haven't gotten around to doing it.

Re: lmsensors on SOYO Dragon mobos

2003-02-27 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Paul" == Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:17:29AM -0600, Shyamal Prasad Paul> wrote: >> I use the same mother board you do. All the hardware on the >> board I've tried to use works (which means I have no idea about >> the smart card

Re: Where to put environment variables?

2003-02-27 Thread praveen kallakuri
your console may not be spawning a login shell. thats when /etc/profile is not read (in other words, /etc/profile is read when you spawn a login shell). trying using a standard terminal. or alternatively, put your environment variables in .bashrc in your HOME. and source .bashrc in your .bash_p

Re: "failure while configuring base packages"

2003-02-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Udo Hoerhold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030227 19:03]: I wonder how much I could sell that list of e-mail addresses for ?? :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: leafnode not posting articles

2003-02-27 Thread Shaul Karl
> > newsq shows them. > > $fetchnews -P - > > says 0 articles posted. > > nothing in /var/log/news/ to indicate a problem. > > what do i need to do to force leafnode to push my articles upstream?? > > iain > Aren't there messages in /var/log/syslog? You might want to post your conf

Re: corrupt bash file

2003-02-27 Thread Rob Weir
Gah! Do not EVER send HTML mail to the list; quite a few people just delete HTML in their mail filters, so they'll never ever even see your messages. On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:55:22PM +, FU2 ! wrote: >when trying to install debian it says that the file >"instmnt/pool/main/b/b

Re: Where to put environment variables?

2003-02-27 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:58 pm, Joao Pedro Clemente wrote: >What is the correct way to add environment variables then? Here's my setup... # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs PAT

Re: no war

2003-02-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030227 16:02 PST]: > Iraq. > Please consider this an urgent request. UN Petition for Peace Stand for Idiot. Please consider that you have just sent (presumably everyone you know)'s email address to a public list. This message

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:51:29PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Who is BCCing you? Is this a real person on this list or a SPAMMER. I > do get few strange BCC messages or bounce messages from SPAMMER. They > harvest addresses from many places and send us a SPAM. SPAM is a brand of meat. Unsolicit

tomcat and woody

2003-02-27 Thread Peter Hicks
Does anyone here have experience with the tomcat in woody? I installed it for some clients to do some development work, along with libapache-mod-webapp ( I heard that this apache module work better thatn mod_jk). Should I go install a more current version of tomcat? I have the blackdown 1.3 java in

autologin in console mode

2003-02-27 Thread Levi Waldron
Is it possible to do an autologin into console mode? ie, when turning on the machine a particular user gets logged in every time without entering a username or password? It's for a visually-impaired user, so having to type that stuff in before the voice prompts are activated is a barrier even

Re: (Newbie) Compatibility while I am fumbling.

2003-02-27 Thread Dana J. Laude
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:00:20PM +0700 or thereabouts, Brian Durant wrote: > found on Linux Printing site that my printer should be supported and I > believe my Asante NIC is supported by Tulip drivers. Anyone out there > that can help? I know for sure that the Asante NIC is supported via the

no war

2003-02-27 Thread Chris . Ryan
Iraq. Please consider this an urgent request. UN Petition for Peace Stand for Peace. Islam is not the Enemy. War is NOT the Answer. Today we are at a point of imbalance in the world and are moving toward what may be the beginning of a THIRD WORLD WAR. If you are against this possibility, the UN is

"failure while configuring base packages"

2003-02-27 Thread Udo Hoerhold
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian on a PC with a Promise ATA100 controller. The onboard controller is hda-hdd, and the Promise controller is hde-hdh. hda and hdb are currently a DVD and CDRW, and hde-hdg are hard drives. I'm trying to use hdg1 as the / partition. The install fails at the "in

Where to put environment variables?

2003-02-27 Thread Joao Pedro Clemente
I would like to add a JAVA_HOME variable as some of my apps seem to like it... I was doing this by exporting it in /etc/profile and it was ok. I was using my system loging in at console and then doing "startx". Today I decided to startup kdm (/etc/init.d/kdm start) and when I logged from there I

Re: US Robotics 56K PCI winmodem + Woody

2003-02-27 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I've recently bought a US Robotics 56K PCI winmodem. I realized the last part (winmodem) just a few days ago. How do I install it in Woody? Currently I'm using Woody, unstable/testing and kernel 2.4.20. YES These modems are "supported." They problem is that the entire driver is not GPL'd

Re: APM

2003-02-27 Thread Joao Pedro Clemente
Try 'insmod apm'. If the module loads then your shutdown/reboot should work with no problems. Good Luck! -- Joao Pedro Clemente jpcl @ rnl.ist.utl.pt On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Daymien wrote: > Hi > > i complete my instalation of debian

APM

2003-02-27 Thread Daymien
Hi i complete my instalation of debian linux. i will use my old celeron pc at server for all pc in the house. For remote control i use ssh if apm works i tray to install a x-server and controll the pc over vnc but at the moment if i shuting down the pc will stop at "you can push off butten" scree

RE: Problem with disk going read only due to errors.

2003-02-27 Thread Jim Hubbard
It's hard to track down the cause of a disk error, but in my experience it's usually the drive itself rather than some other component. My suggestion would be to run "shutdown -r -F now" which will reboot and force a fsck on all volumes. Then back up everything you want to keep and get new disk (

Using apt-build with woody

2003-02-27 Thread Rob French
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I downloaded the source package for 'apt-build' from testing/unstable (don't recall which--same version, anyhow) and built and installed it on my woody/stable system. I have some problems building a lot of packages, however. I successfully b

Re: Disaster recovery

2003-02-27 Thread Rich Johnson
Yeah, this "works", but it's not quite what I want. I'd like the deltas between the default installation and my installation. Although disaster recovery is my primary objective, the list of deltas can also be used for other things, including: - problem resolution - i.e. what's non-standard ab

Re: Laptop (PCMCIA) NIC Suggestions for Woody Stable

2003-02-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:17:18AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I will be inheriting a used laptop in about a week, and I need to purchase a > PCMCIA NIC for it. Any suggestions for one that will work well with Woody > Stable? Thanks everyone! If you are for 10 base T, any name brand card

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:27:32AM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Craig Dickson wrote: > > >is a better solution than demanding that the rest of the world bend over > >backward for your defective software. > How am I asking the rest of the world to bend over backwards? > > *shrugs* Doesn't matt

Re: default permissions on /root

2003-02-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:45:14PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:07:38PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > > Can anyone explain to me why /root has > > default permissions of 700 on a clean > > install? > > Because that's root's home directory and you normally don't wan

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2003-02-27 Thread Jeromy Lukenbaugh
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Re: Mouse not working in GPM or X

2003-02-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:02:23PM -0500, Rowland Darbin wrote: > > I installed XFree86 -configure and it tells me that it can't find my mouse. > So I installed gpm. When gpm is running and I move around the mouse, I > don't get a curser, I get a white line on the top of the screen and a bunch

RE: US Robotics 56K PCI winmodem + Woody

2003-02-27 Thread David Turetsky
Having recently gone around this issue with a different win modem, I believe that USRobotics has not released documentation for their winmodem (which I also have) I sidestepped the issue by buying a winmodem for $25 which is supported (I didn't know it was a win modem when I bought it) from CompUS

RE: Reverting to the stable distribution

2003-02-27 Thread Jim Hubbard
Remove kde3 first (all of it), then install kde2. Worth a shot. Sincerely, Jim Hubbard .--. |o_o | |:_/ | // \ \ (| | ) /'\_ _/`\ \___)=(___/ Rockingham County Linux Users Group www.rock.lug.net __

Re: Gamepads

2003-02-27 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Thursday 27 February 2003 19:25, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > Any suggestions? People have suggested MS Sidewinders, which I will > consider, but I wonder if a cheaper solution exists (correct me if I am > wrong, but I last remember it going for $25-$30 (USD)). Is the Sidewinder Strategic Comman

Re: Problem with kernel 2.4.20

2003-02-27 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
Upgrading alsa-modules caused an upgrade to kernel-image-2.4.16. I now boot the 2.4.16 but have no access to net. ifconfig does not show eth0, and an modprobe rtl* is installing an USB module and not the ethernet module. I fallback on 2.2.20 which seem to have a net/ dir in /lib/modules/2.2.20-

Re: Can debian detect a tape drive without rebooting?

2003-02-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:49:34PM +0100, Yildiz, Murat wrote: > I have installed the package and run rescan-scsi-bus.sh: > > It couldn't detect the tape drive connected to aic7xxx.Is there anything > else I can check? That the tape drive is turned on? :-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: US Robotics 56K PCI winmodem + Woody

2003-02-27 Thread donw
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:22:05PM +0100, Aedificator wrote: > I've recently bought a US Robotics 56K PCI winmodem. I realized the last > part (winmodem) just a few days ago. > > How do I install it in Woody? You don't; if this has changed (with respect to USR winmodems), I'd like to know. -- D

Problem with disk going read only due to errors.

2003-02-27 Thread David Preece
Hi, I came in this morning to find a user unable to check his email - reporting an unknown password. In tried to change his password and couldn't, it turns out the drive had gone read only. router:/var/log# mount /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpt

Re: manglement-compatible comparison of SuSE vs. Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Thursday 27 February 2003 12:15, Paul Johnson wrote: > this is particularly bad (I'm not used to SuSE), though this has > nothing to do with being German. > > But seriously, if you had the choice between apt-getty goodness and > anything else, which would you pick? Heck, I wish I could use apt-

GNOME 1.4 on Woody

2003-02-27 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I'm doing a baseline netinstall of Debian, and I want to add the GNOME 1.4 desktop to it. Is there some specific meta-package I should be installing? How do I know I'm getting the full desktop? A specific order of apt-get commands or something? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Multidisciplinary Optimizati

Re: my ongowing struggle with java

2003-02-27 Thread Andy Wettstein
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:26:30PM -0500, karrottop wrote: > Ok, I have been having a horrible time getting java to behave, I > thought I followed the directions explicitly but I guess I messed > something up somewhere. Here is what I did: > > First I unpacked everything in /usr/java/ and added

Re: How to create a 3.0r1 repository on disk?

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 27 February 2003 04:03 am, Stephen Birch wrote: > I have an "official" Debian 3.0 dvd plus an "official" r1 CD. > > Can any tell me how to copy them both onto hard disk and combine them > into a single 3.0r1 repository that apt can use. > > I have scanned the docks but cannot find a des

Re: Gamepads

2003-02-27 Thread Andy Wettstein
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:25:14PM -0600, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > This isn't so much Debian related as it is just general hardware info. > I have a Gravis gamepad. It looks like a Playstation controller, which > is great for SNES emulation. > Unfortunately, the directional pad is hard to contr

Re: my ongowing struggle with java

2003-02-27 Thread Craig Dickson
karrottop wrote: > Ok, I have been having a horrible time getting java to behave, I > thought I followed the directions explicitly but I guess I messed > something up somewhere. Here is what I did: > > First I unpacked everything in /usr/java/ and added this to a line in my > /etc/profile > >

RE: apt-file question

2003-02-27 Thread Narins, Josh
> apt-file search vga.h > > Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_foreign" > (perhaps\ > you forgot to load "URI::_foreign"?) at /usr/bin/apt-file line 225. > > Yes, I did not 'load "URI::_foreign"' How do I do that? > > Robert Robert, this is not something you have to do. M

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US Robotics 56K PCI winmodem + Woody

2003-02-27 Thread Aedificator
I've recently bought a US Robotics 56K PCI winmodem. I realized the last part (winmodem) just a few days ago. How do I install it in Woody? Currently I'm using Woody, unstable/testing and kernel 2.4.20. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: CD-Text

2003-02-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030227 12:10 PST]: > Vineet Kumar wrote: > >cdrecord supports it. So does cdda2wav, for duplicating CDs with text > > Is it possible for cdparanoia to pull this information off the original > and write to a file for cdrecord to use? I

Re: Laptop (PCMCIA) NIC Suggestions for Woody Stable

2003-02-27 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Ed Lawson wrote: > I have used one of the combo cards from Xircom in a laptop running > Woody. I really like the card since cable and phone line plug in > directly and it works well. I don't remember having to do anything to > get it to work both as a modem and NIC under Woo

Re: Using PPP for Dial out connection to ISP

2003-02-27 Thread Tim
Satish Iyer wrote: Hi, I am having problems configuring my ISP connection with ppp. After I use drivers specific for my modem, which install according to the README that comes with the driver-downloadable from the manufacturers website. If yours is driven the same way, make sure you specif

Re: CD-Text

2003-02-27 Thread Tim
Vineet Kumar wrote: cdrecord supports it. So does cdda2wav, for duplicating CDs with text Is it possible for cdparanoia to pull this information off the original and write to a file for cdrecord to use? Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: IPv6 subnet?

2003-02-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:29:57AM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I ended up doing this: > > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet static > address 192.168.0.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > # > up /sbin/ifconfig eth1 inet6 add 2001:470:1F00:465::1/64 > up /sbin/route -A inet6 a

Re: YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound

2003-02-27 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:53:44PM +0100, Yildiz, Murat wrote: > I get the following message on my console every few minutes.I configured it > as a nis client and ypbind tells at the star that it cannot bind to domain. > The NIS server is in a different subnet.If I put the client machine in the > s

Re: Changing process priority

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald Castillo
I created a new KDE System Guard link that runs as root so I could change the priority to whatever I want it to. Works very well! Ronald On Thursday 27 February 2003 04:46, Seneca wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:30:26PM +, Rodrigo Sobrinho wrote: > > well, when I logged at non super-use

Re: default permissions on /root

2003-02-27 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:07:38PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > Can anyone explain to me why /root has > default permissions of 700 on a clean > install? Because that's root's home directory and you normally don't want any user's home directory to be world-readable. -- Michael Heironimus --

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